Brentley Romine starts with No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and then ranks everyone behind him in the 2025 Masters field.
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Ninety-fiveplayers,followingVijaySingh’sMondaywithdrawal,willteeitupinthisweek’sMastersTournamentatAugustaNational,includingworldNo.1ScottieScheffler,whohaswontwoofthepastthreeeditionsoftheyear’sfirstmajor.
Despitemissingsometimewithahandinjuryearlierthisyear,Schefflerstillhasnotfinishedoutsidethetop25thisyear.Andwhilehehasn’twonsincetheHeroWorldChallengelastDecember,there’snoreasonthatSchefflershouldn’tbethefavoritetowinathirdgreenjacket.
AugustaNationallooksalittledifferentthisyear,mainlybecauseofthemanytreesthatwerelostduringHurricaneHelene.Therearealsofournewgreens,accordingtoRoryMcIlroy(Nos.1,8,15and16).Butit’sstillthesamesecond-shotgolfcoursethatwillfavoreliteapproachplay,craftyscramblersandstrongputters,especiallythosewholagitwell.WithSchefflercomingoffastrongputtingperformanceinHouston,thatbodesevenbetterforhim.StartingwithScheffler,here
